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In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
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protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in … online searches for pollution-related topics, adjustments in day-to-day consumption patterns to avoid pollution exposure, and …
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Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and …
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Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...
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estimates of WTP for clean air in developing countries. A spatial discontinuity in air pollution created by the Huai River … heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …
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coal-fired electricity generation and wind direction to address the endogeneity of local air pollution. Results suggest … costs and the discreteness of the choice set. Our sorting results indicate that the economic value of air quality …
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. Because air pollution is likely to be correlated with unobservable local characteristics such as economic activity, we … instrument for air quality using the contribution of distant sources to local pollution %u2013 excluding emissions from local …. The findings also confirm the importance of instrumenting for local air pollution …
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Individuals who are likely to realize the largest benefits from improvements in air quality often depend on other members of their households to make time or monetary contributions to their care. The presence of these dependency relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit...
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I examine the risk/return tradeoff for environmental investments, and its implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent does the value of such a policy depend on the expected future damages from global warming versus uncertainty over those damages,...
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Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...
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